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Winter 1996
Orpheus in the Underworld
Special Section: Orpheus. Descending. Still jet lagged after a fourteen-hour transatlantic flight held over at Logan while the weather cleared, his night-long fitful tossing in the hotel has at […]
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Autumn 1986
Some Snapshots from the Soviet Zone
I The dismal Danes had lost our bags … cartons of books … gifts to our hosts. A darling blond “girl scout” in an SAS coat had assured us we […]
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Spring 1981
“If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler”: An Excerpt from the Novel
Translated for Italian. You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world […]
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Winter 1981
Snow
Against thin woods, Siberian snow steadily erases objects from their names, like weevils in flour rocks crawl under the elms. There is a place whose year is February. A red […]
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Summer 1958
Christmas Eve in Whitneyville, 1955
to my father December, and the closing of the year; The momentary carolers complete Their Christmas Eves, and quickly disappear Into their houses on each lighted street. Each car is […]
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Spring 1948
A Winter-Piece to a Friend Away
Your letter came.—Glutted the earth & cold With rains long heavy, follows intense frost; Snow howls and hides the world We worked awhile to build; all the roads are lost; […]
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Winter 1946
Winter in Dunbarton
Time smiling on this sundial of a world Corrupted the snow-monster and the worm, Ransacker of shard statues and the peers Of Europe; but our cat is cold, is curled […]
Wintry Reading
Selections by Deputy Editor Elliott Holt